Orchids

If it's life You can bet That the worst surprise is waiting at the end Just you try Playing dumb Picking sides When the first kiss and the last one intertwine With your sister's fifth grade head lice In the irises and orchids of your eyes If it's life You can fall And fall again before you've had the chance to rise Much at all Decades end In seconds flat Professor Neil deGrasse Tyson, explain that With a well-honed anecdote about his past or his decisions Of course he can And we would sigh With a single standing ovation worldwide The very first, the very last one of its size And we were proud to be alive